(2019/01/25 20:33), Etsuro Fujita wrote: > I noticed yet another thing while updating the patch for pushing down > ORDER BY LIMIT. Let me explain. When costing foreign paths on the > basis of local statistics, we calculate/cache the costs of an unsorted > foreign path, and re-use them to estimate the costs of presorted foreign > paths, as shown below. BUT: we fail to re-use them for some typical > queries, such as "select * from ft1 order by a", due to > fpinfo->rel_startup_cost=0, leading to doing the same cost calculation > repeatedly. > > /* > * We will come here again and again with different set of pathkeys > * that caller wants to cost. We don't need to calculate the cost of > * bare scan each time. Instead, use the costs if we have cached > them > * already. > */ > if (fpinfo->rel_startup_cost> 0&& fpinfo->rel_total_cost> 0) > { > startup_cost = fpinfo->rel_startup_cost; > run_cost = fpinfo->rel_total_cost - fpinfo->rel_startup_cost; > } > > I think we should use "fpinfo->rel_startup_cost>= 0" here, not > "fpinfo->rel_startup_cost> 0". Also, it would be possible that the > total cost calculated is zero in corner cases (eg, seq_page_cost=0 and > cpu_tuple_cost=0 for the example), so I think we should change the total > cost part as well. Attached is a patch for that.
I added the commit message. Updated patch attached. If no objections, I'll apply that to HEAD only as there are no reports of actual trouble from this, as far as I know. Best regards, Etsuro Fujita
>From 24b84c230434e3dec6b20b47a859b834fbaabfd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Etsuro Fujita <efuj...@postgresql.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:33:46 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] postgres_fdw: Fix test for cached costs in estimate_path_cost_size(). estimate_path_cost_size() failed to re-use cached costs when the cached startup/total cost was 0, so it calculated the costs redundantly. This is an oversight in commit aa09cd242f; but apply the patch to HEAD only because there are no reports of actual trouble from that. Author: Etsuro Fujita Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5C4AF3F3.4060409%40lab.ntt.co.jp --- contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c b/contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c index 9244fe7571..1a88919cfc 100644 --- a/contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c +++ b/contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c @@ -2625,7 +2625,7 @@ estimate_path_cost_size(PlannerInfo *root, * bare scan each time. Instead, use the costs if we have cached them * already. */ - if (fpinfo->rel_startup_cost > 0 && fpinfo->rel_total_cost > 0) + if (fpinfo->rel_startup_cost >= 0 && fpinfo->rel_total_cost >= 0) { startup_cost = fpinfo->rel_startup_cost; run_cost = fpinfo->rel_total_cost - fpinfo->rel_startup_cost; -- 2.19.2